5JEDF0TID MAIL TTTBTJN"E, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER '16, 1933.
11 Outrageous Fortune
Chapter li
A NEW OLUE
MAJOR ANDERSON came for
ward and leaned on the table.
Caroline came anl etood by Jim,
and as ahe put a hand on hli ahonl
der, the Inspector said,
"Well, sir, I think that settles It"
Carolina began to shake. Why had
Jim told them all those things?
Ther weren't go t to understand.
Jim's hand came up and covered
hers. It was strong, and warm, and
heavy. Ea said,
f Oo and sit down, Caroline."
And then, to the Inspector,
Tou'd better let me finish, fra
tally got halt way."
"Let him go on," said Major An
derson In a hard, tired voice. It was
a good thing old James Randal was
dead. Nice woman Mrs. Randal. A
good thing she'd gone a thing like
jthls would have killed her. The fel
low must be mad ot oourse. A
damned bad 1'Jialness.
He watched the Inspector pick up
,the shining heap. It straightened
jtnto a double pearl-strung ebaln
'Unking the eight square emeralds
'so lightly that they seemed to hang
In the air. The Inspector let them
fall upon a piece ot blotting paper.
Major Anderson went back to the
fireplace and aald curtly,
"Go on, Randal."
Jim moved his chair back a little.
J! wanted to be able to address the
Chief Constable without appearing
(to Ignore the inspector.
"Now we're really going to get
down to It. I snatched the emeralds
and made off Just about as hard as
.J could go, and all In a flash my
(memory came track. You know the
way a blind goes up witb a click.
H was like that. I want to tell you
what I've remembered.
"To start with, I wasn't Jim Rid-
dell, and I hadn't married Nesta
Williams. My business over here
was to try and Interest various Im
portant people in a new steel proc
ess I had Invented. Elmer Van Berg
was one ot them.
"He'd been nibbling at It In New
York, where I'd known him pretty
iweu. well, nea cooiea on. ud me
1 6th ot August I had a telephone con
versation with blm. When he heard
Ithat certain other people were In
terested In my process, ha warmed
up a bit.
"The upshot ot the talk was that
he wanted me to go dawn and see
him. Well, I waa leaving tor Boot
land next day and I didn't want to
put oft going, so I went down by
train to Hlnton and walked over to
Fackham."
"What train did you take," said
the Inspector.
'The eight-twenty. It got Into
Hlnton at ten-fifteen. I walked over
to Tackham, and It took me about
an hour and a halt I went round to
the library and knocked on the win
dow, and Elmer let me in as we had
arranged. We talked, and we had
drinks, but we didn't come to any
agreement."
"Did you quarrel'?" aald the In
spector.
"It dopenda on what you'd call a
qunrrel. We didn't agree. If you
don't agree with Elmer, he tries to
shout yon down. There's nothing In
It but It's noisy while It lasts." '
"You parted on bad terms?" said
the Inspector.
"Oh no. we didn't he blew him
self out and calmed down. We had
; another drink. He told me about all
!the shows they were going to, and
about the emeralds. Ha said his
'wife was going to wear them at the
'Recklngtons' in a day or two
tableaux lor some charity so he'd
got them in the house.
"He asked me It Td ilka to lea
them, and I said yei. He took them
out ot his sate and showed them
to me. That was the bit I remem
bered his hand under the light
and those eight thumping big stones.
"Then I said good-night and went
out the same way I'd coma In. I let
myself out He was over by the
table swinging the chain on his
finger and worshipping K. He's
crajy about stones."
THE Inspector spoke again.
"You left him like that?"
"I left him like that No, I haven't
Inlshed not by a long chalk. I'd
missed the last train handsomely, so
I walked Into Ledllngton."
The Inspector's eyebrows twitch
ad. "Yoi walked Into Ledllngton?"
"I did
"Twenty miles?"
"Why not? I told you I vailihort
of exercise."
"Mr. Van Berg didn't ask yoa to
stay the Bight?"
"Yes, he asked me."
"Why dldnt you stay?"
"I didn't want to. I wanted to let)
back to London rd my boat to
catch."
"So you walked to Ledllngton?"
"Yes. I took the first train on lp
to town and went on board the Alice
Arden. Yon know about the wreck,
ao I can skip all that I waa washed
overboard and flung up on a piece of
rock. It didn't take ma long to find
out that the tide was coming In. I
didn't think much of my chances, be
cause I didn't think my rock waa
above high water mark.
"I shouted as loud as I could.
Presently something bobbed up and
hit me. It was a man. A wave fairly
slung him at me, and I grabbed him.
At first I thought be was dead, but
he wasn't He began to cough and;
choke, and curse and cry. Be waa
out ot his head with terror. I held
on to Mm, or he'd h-ve been oft the
rock a dozen times,
"The tog was so thick that I
couldn't see him, and ha couldn't sea
me, and be was out ot his wits with
fright I couldn't make out whether
he thought he was dead, or whether
he was Just afraid he waa going to
die. Anyway be waa talklng-crasy. I
don't think he ever stopped, and It
was all, 'Jimmy Rlddell,' and, 'Eight
green atones like a kid's green
beads.' He must have said that hun
dreds of times. It was like having
a talking machine record going
round and round in your head.
"I couldn't atop him be Just went
right on: 'Jimmy Rlddell,' and, 'A
kid's green beads,' and, 'No on
know where they ar except me.'
And then a piece about 'Five win
dows like silts' and, 'The finest
emeralds In the world.' " Jim paused
and looked from one to the other.
"All those things he kept on say
ing stuck in my mind, and when I'd
lost my memory and didn't, know
who I was, there they were, and 1
dldnt know what to make of them.
I said them In my Bleep, and they
made Nesta Rlddell think I knew all
about the emeralds."
He pushed back his chair and
got up. "I can't tell you anything
more, That's the last I remember
being on the rock, and the tide com
ing up. They aay they found me on
a ledge, but I don't know how I got
there. And I suppose Jimmy Rlddell
mnat have been picked up by the
life-boat He wouldn't have given his
real name. ,
THE Inspector's eyebrows twitch
ed again.
"You aay the emeralds were hid
den at Hale Place. How do you ao
count for that?" .
"I can't account for It The flvt
windows like slits are to the Blui
Room at Hale Place. The emeralds
were hidden there."
"How?"
Jim hesitated for the first time
, . , Oh well, tt was bonnd to come
out He said, ,
"There's a secret hiding-place In
the room. The emeralds were
there."
"Can you explain how Jimmy Rld
dell knew ot the secret hiding
place?" "No, I can't"
Caroline got up and came to th
table, her eyes very bright her
cheeks flaming.
"His real name" ehe aald
"Jimmy Rlddell's real name do you
know It?"
The Inspector shifted bis light
Impassive stare. It rested upon Car
oline and took In her color, the ex
citement In her eyes, and the alight
tremor ot her hands. She was bare
headed, with bright tossed curia
Her hands were bare too.
The Inspector spoke.
"His real name well. It lent Rld
dell. He's bad a lot ot aliases
Rudge and Ray he generally
stlcka to an R. As far aa I know,
hla real name Is Rudd."
"Oh I" said Caroline.
Jim turned to her with a pussled
look.
"What's all this?"
"Emily," said Caroline breathless
ly "Enilly Ruddl Oh, Jrm, donl
you remember?"
A halt memory Jigged through hla
mind. It was like a leaf blowing.
Ha couldn't catch It It blew away
and waa gone.
"Emily Rudd?"
fOopyrluM, fill, J. B. ItpptoeeM Co.!
Monday, llmer Van Barf wakens
and hat nit say
PORTLAND, Nov. Id. (API
Mary Barlow Wllklns, 78, grand
daughter of Samuel K. Barlow, build
er of the Barlow road pais through
the mountains In the vicinity ot
Mount Hood, and used by Vie wag
on trains of the pioneers, died at
her home here Tuesday. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow.
Mrs. Wllklns was born on the Bar
low farm In Clackamas county. About
1671 she became principal of the
Gervals public school. She later
taught In Aurora, and In 1863 came
to Portland where she taught for 10
years.
She had served aa president of the
Oregon Pioneer Society.
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RATTLES SABRE
PARIS, Hot. 16. (AP) An olive
branch In a mailed fist was extended
toward Germany by France today.
Replying to CbanoeUor Hitler's oit
repeated cries for continued peace and
a separate Franco-German non-aggression
treaty, Premier Albert Sar
raut told the chamber of deputies last
night that he too sought peace.
But, in the next breath of a stir
ring declaration of cabinet policy that
wo noverwhelmlng support, he called
attention to the great French army.
Prance," he declared, "has a moral,
material and military forco that for
bids anyone to dictate to her."
The police force of NewcastTe-on-Tyne,
England, claims to be the first
in the British ' Isles to Inaugurate
a permanent radio-telephone system
for communicating with mobile po
plle controls, which includes motorcycles.
S'MATTER POP
By C. M. PAYNE
HEALTH MEETING
SLATED NOV. 24
The bi-monthly meeting of the
Jactmti County Health Association
will be held at the cotftty oourt
house November 94, Mies Mildred
Carlton, president of the association,
announced yesterday.
The speaker for the occasion will
be Mrs. Mabel Mark, home demon
stration agent, and the two county
nurses, who have announced aa
their subject, "roods and Nutrition."
AM members of the assoclstlon
sre requested to bring their own
cup, asurera and spoons for refresh
ments, as mere la no "chins" In the
conn house The meeting Is sched
uled for 3:90 o'clock.
Ths South Carolina Emergency
Relief Administration bes estab
lished six bureaus In as many parts
ot the atata In eUorta to control beg-
PAIR OF SUSPECTS
TAKEN BY POLICE
Two suspects, Nate Dyer, tt, and
Roy Johnson. 40, arrested last night
by state police at the gravel works
south of the city are held In clay Jail
today, awaiting Investigation. The
two hsd a number of tools, a canvss
and other articles In their poesee
alon when located by police. The ar
ticles were believed to constitute
stolen goods.
Dyer gave Oregon as his native state
and Johnson, California.
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